Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne (c. 1786 – 1854) was a French
chansonnier
A chansonnier ( ca, cançoner, oc, cançonièr, Galician and pt, cancioneiro, it, canzoniere or ''canzoniéro'', es, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings o ...
and
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
during the first half of the 19th century.
Biography
An employee at the
Palais-Royal
The Palais-Royal () is a former royal palace located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal ...
(1823) in the administration of the
Duke of Orleans (
Louis Philippe I) in Paris, he had under him
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer ...
then hired as a copyist, whom he introduced into the literary life.
[Claude Schopp, ''Dictionnaire Alexandre Dumas'', 2010, ] He wrote with him the play ''
La Noce et l'Enterrement'' which would be presented at the
Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in 1826.
His
plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his fifetime:
Théâtre du Vaudeville,
Théâtre de l'Odéon,
Théâtre des Variétés etc.
Works
*1824: ''La Pièce de circonstance, ou le Théâtre dans la caserne'', à-propos-vaudeville
*1824: ''La Rue du Carrousel, ou le Musée en boutique'',
vaudeville in 1 act, with
Théodore Anne
*1825: ''Dansera-t-on ? ou les Deux adjoints'', à-propos vaudeville in 1 act, with Paul Ledoux
*1825: ''Les Singes, ou la Parade dans le salon'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Rochefort and Brisset
*1826: ''La pêche de Vulcain, ou L'île des fleuves'', à-propos mingled with vaudeville, with
Mathurin-Joseph Brisset
Mathurin-Joseph Brisset (22 November 1792 – 7 June 1856) was a French writer, poet, political journalist and playwright of the first half of the 19th century.
Biography
A bodyguard attached to the company of Havré, then an infantry officer ...
and
Edmond Rochefort
Edmond Rochefort, full name Claude-Louis-Marie de Rochefort-Luçay (Évaux-les-Bains, 1790 – Paris, April 1871), was a French writer, dramatist, vaudevillist and songs writer. His only play that was met with some success is ''Jocko ou le Singe d ...
*1826: ''Le Prologue impromptu, ou les Acteurs en retard'', à propos in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with
Marc-Antoine Désaugiers
*1826: ''
La Noce et l'Enterrement'', play, with
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer ...
and Gustave Vulpian
*1828: ''Le Farceur de société, ou les Suites d'une parade'', play in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Rochefort
*1828: ''Les Omnibus, ou la Revue en voiture'', vaudeville en 4 tableaux, with
Frédéric de Courcy
Frédéric de Courcy, born Frédéric Charlot de CourcyThus he is not part of the Norman Courcy family, contrary to his entry in ''Dictionnaire de biographie française'' (16 August 1796, Paris – 6 May 1862, Paris) was a French dramatist, poet an ...
and
Charles Dupeuty
*1828: ''Le Restaurant, ou le Quart d'heure de Rabelais'', tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with de Courcy
*undated; ''Le Retour du guernadier'', song
References
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French chansonniers
1854 deaths
Alexandre Dumas
Year of birth uncertain
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